It looks like children of over a century ago received plenty of toys for Christmas if they were from well off families, like Morris Small and Henry Spahr Small, pictured here. The photos are from an album of photos taken from 1896 to 1910 and donated in 1957 to the
Lewis Miller Drawing of “Some Wicked Boys at the Market House, 1804” Folk artist and chronicler Lewis Miller doesn’t say if the prank illustrated above occurred on Halloween or not, but it certainly would have been a fitting one for the tricky holiday. Some young Yorkers had some time on